Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-05-25

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lar taste snd every scrap Of interest
e1Bneeted vith the scenes Of she great
RsbeIltsn Il eagerly read. nothing hss
bssu printed Of sn inside charaeseF ex-
ceiling 4 description given for the Hfsi
tia7s Of the rasthod By waich eomm1ni-
cation By telegraph vas held 0pen be-
tween Baltimore ard Washington. dur
LOG the MEMORIALS Ffotz il 3 .isIf13rs.
o. sae 10 b Of AgFil. 1861. No one cut
sids the principals and taess vho Gssd
them ever knee how tbs Nstionai Gov
eminent became appgised 90 quickly q
what vas going on. Tbs oaiy telegraph
cs1parg transAetina bosiuess IN those
days was the '.Amefiozn,n and the forcs
consisted Of q uanARsf, q deZ - opeT
ators and fav clerks The Operating
department. was on she 9Th 9 1or Of
the baildiaa where the Bsliimsys Asssr
toaH y nov p1biishsd. Inc riot con
msnsed on Friday morning. April -
1861. The Massachusetts, TROOPS among
me fFSt 70 v0lantees. gsfe on their SAy
70 Washington. Their attack b . mot
and the history Of that riot IL generally
veil known. bat The teIsgsaphis portion
Of The history Of that day has not bssn
thought Of. 10 lees than Eve inmates
after the NsFthsrn soldiers hsd been at
Tackled, tie excited rioters dashed -
toe I've diGhta Of stairs 10 the epeFAt-
Tag room Of the Telegraph 0fhse % pre-
vent the dispatehinz Of the news To
Washington, and tha consequent pun
ishment froa the National forces which
soAid surely fellow. The operators.
fearing tntsEFuptlGD. had locked the
doors. but the fFanEied southern sympA-
thizsrs chopped their way through With
ha. ehets, and haekei right and left as
the wires leading cat Of the windows,
abeir performance "a icing crested With
wild shouts Ia tie streets below. The
police force ined sctualiy tried to make
the rioters deaisi 10 their destruction Of
property, bus towards tie afternoon
every wire, With 3 single exception was
destroyed. This sire, fortunately, led
to Washington, and the failure 10 bEeak
IL was ona Of the oyeFsiRhta that occur
ia periods Of exeitsment. Ths tsie-
graph men tested, fr0m time 10 time,
north, south. east and vest, and s0on
discovered that they bad one wire left.
downstairs office, and TO conceal this
They thought II advisable to close the
fact by a notification 90 tks public that
as all the wires had been cut they
oauld take n0 business from any point.
Word came from the Washington aa-
tkorities, iuquiFing whether any opef
ator would man this wire for the Gov
eminent. A consultation vas held and
one Of the force assigned 10 the service
He vas . mere slEipline, snd tue only
one who would volunteer for the dan
Rsrous work. He needed a messenger
10 deliver bic dispatches, bat all the reg
nlAF force Of boys declined 10 take the
risk of travelling 10 the streets as BiRht
aud only With considerable Ell art vas q
voianteor messenger pfoouFed. The
tee YOUNGSTERS acted for two nights
and one day. and the messenger is now
one Of the most pF0minent citizens Of
Baltimore and leading corporation at
toFney. The operator Is employed In
Washington by the Western Uniou
Company. With blinds closely drawn
and howlinR mob few feet away, the
boys served the Government through
Friday night all day Saturday, that
night, and through 30 Sunday morning
without sleep, and with bat very little
60 eat. Had they been discovered,
they would certainly have hune, and
the consciousness Of this danger did
nee make their desire TO sleep very
strong.